IThera093

Findspot and Location

  • Country: Greece
  • Region: Santorini
  • Settlement: Ancient Thera
  • Repository: Archaeological site of Ancient Thera

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The rock is located south of the Gymnasium of the Ephebes, near the southern outer section of a circular building constructed with the same Archaic technique as the enclosed area west of the Temple of Apollo Karneios. To the right of the vertical surface bearing the inscription, the rock is irregular, with three visible cuttings and a fourth near the lower edge of the horizontal plane.

Layout

The inscription is retrograde, except for the iota. It is engraved along the lower edge of a rock surface, shaped to form a vertical wall that extends horizontally beyond its lower boundary.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: right stroke widely spaced, slightly oblique bar. Iota: three-bars shape. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. Koppa: vertical stroke extending into the bowl. San: used for a sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:6th century BCE

Findspot:To the southeast of the circular building near the Gymnasium of the Ephebes, Inglese 2008.

Coordinates:36.36165, 25.48149

Last recorded location: in situ; Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

Edition


Ϙοτίας

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008. Possible interpretations could be Ϙοττίας, Ϙο̄τίας, Ϙο̄ττίας.

Commentary

The inscription likely records a personal name, possibly Ϙο̄τίας, where the omicron may function as omega or indicate a short vowel. The paleographic features, particularly the koppa with its extended stroke, align with other local inscriptions. As in other cases, the inscription is retrograde except for the iota, a feature that seems to be part of the area’s writing habit (or perhaps its alphabetic tradition).

Bibliography

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Editorial Team

Editor: Alessandra Inglese

Principal Investigator: Alessandra Inglese

Funder: CHANGES - Theme 5. Humanities and Cultural Heritage as Laboratories of Innovation and Creativity, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, Associazione Centro di Eccellenza DTC

Alessandra Inglese: original data collection and edition

Valentina Mignosa: encoding, editing metadata and geo data, website content creation, HTML transformation, website design and styling, interactive mapping implementation

Marika Griffo: rubbings digitisation

Simone Lucchetti: rubbings digitisation

Luigi Tessarolo: website construction, design and styling, interactive mapping implementation

Virgilio Costa: methodological and digital consultancy

Publication Details

Authority: ThERA (Theran Epigraphic Rubbings Archive) project

Licence: Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence

Encoding model / validation: EpiDoc encoding model and validation framework adapted from ISicily

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